Star Wars Galaxies: New Game Experience Article

The New York Times has published an article entitled "For Online Star Wars Game, It's Revenge of the Fans", in which they detail the negative publicity surrounding Sony and LucasArts' "New Game Experience" rollout for Star Wars Galaxies. A taste:
"Someone might wonder, well, it's just a game, what's the big deal?" said Robert Kruck, 54, an engineer for Motorola who lives in Schaumburg, Ill., who said he had canceled seven of his eight Galaxies accounts. "But for many people it is much more than a game," he said. "It is a part of their lives where they have invested huge amounts of time building a community. And that community has been based on a sophisticated, mature game. So now, for them to take an adult-level combat and economics simulation and turn it into a mindless game for 10-year-olds is a violation of that community."

For Sony and LucasArts, the idea has been to make the game more "Star Wars-like," tying it more explicitly to the films.